The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-01-05

The NatchitOches RertesC Is booming
General Gibson for reelection to the U.
3. Senate Neighbour, he will neverl get
there. New York politics suits his tai
ents better than Louisiana's interests.
Ar a meeting of enlisted men at Fort
Elliott, Texas, the recent surrender OF
squad of United States soldiers to two
train robbers, was denounced, and stern
measures of punishment were recon-
mended.
THE steamboats, R: s. sHayes and City
of Natchez, two fine Mississippi river
crafts, together with four barges loaded
with cotton and merchandise, burned at
Cairo on the 18th nit. The loss is estima-
ted at three hundred thousand dollars.
ONE Of our Crescent City contempt
raries very sensibly calculates: "What
this country wants more than anything
else is to see Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
muzzled by matrimony. Asyet, however,
no ching of hair and neck-ties" has
shown disposition to sacrifice himself on
her altar.
DALLAS has opened house for wo-
men where unfortunate IN iidieeat wo-
men are sheltered and supported and
children taken care of during the day
while their mothers are out at work.
Dallas is taking the lead of all Texas cit
les in charitable, humane and religious
works.
AN O'Possm club has been organized,
says an exchange, at Pensacola, and on
the first Of January they were to have
given their first O'Possum bake. One of
the rules of the organization requires that
during the progress of the feast each en-
Der of the shall relate some anecdote
about the O'Possum.
ONE of the papers speaking Of Hon.
NC. Blanchard for Governor says that the
Congressman will have to resign six
months previous to his nomination. Our
Congressman was still iu his senses up to
last advices, and will hold ON to what he
has, for the press with all it's power, can't
boom him into gnbernatorial candidate.
ISAAC SimOnds, q negro, OF Boston,
Mass, is turning white every day. He is
over so years old, and was once q slave.
Nine years ago, while visiting in Louis
vile, KY, he took sick, and after three
weeks illness srevered.! But ever since
then his skin has been gradually losing
its ebony color, until now he would read
i y pass for white man.
THE democratic party in Congress is
like bird whose two wings have fallen
out with each other. What is needed, as
the. Augusta Chronicle ..suggests, is that
they should be made to clap together,
and then the democratic "bird o free
dom" will be able to show what stuff it is
made off, will Mr.. Morrison be kind
enough to oil.up the joints .of one wing
while Mr.. Carlisle performs the same ser
vice for the otherf
Two steam shovels and two trains are
at present engaged in raising the embank-
ment of the Texas and Pacific railroad,
north of the Atchafalaya river. above
high water mark. The work of replacing
the old iron rails with new. steel. rails is
progressingIrapidly, and gangs of men
are at work at four different points on the
New..Orleans division of Ethe road. One
gang'is at work north of Donaldsonville,
one north of Cheneyville, one north Of
Poyce and one gang north Of Gouldsboro
-[Shreveport Times
THE Ouacl tia Telegraph says it is il
earnest when it advocates the nomination
ofJudge Moncure, of Caddo, for Governor
No doubt-many more have been in ear
nest when they signally failed. Caddo il
just now the home of the candidate, TO
Blanchard is longing, his friends say
Well, perhaps, North Louisiana will leav'
Caddo to settle their family fight, Will
the regular democracy will take care o
the party by advancing the standard o
those, who. have in the past, been success
full over the Radical host. What will tn
reform democracy of Caddo do with Gen
Methodist He has come to stay.
ONE of our exchanges has this to ga
concerning the decision Of Judge Taylo
in the poker case recently tried in Shreve
port: The poker law suit recently decide
by Judge Taylor, Of Caddo, has create
much amusement and interest thronghor
the State. Judge Taylor decided this
when Landman won all of Myers poke
checks, and loaned them back to N.Y.
to pay his indebtedness to another gan
bier, thatsLandman had good cause fl
action and gave Judgment in his favo
Now we consider Judge Taylor one of Il
best claw guessers" in the State, but if
will look at the u A. 254-Simpson v
Whitney he will see that the supren
Court, whose guesses have some weigh
if some police jury don't interfere, b
already given guess exactly the rever
to his Landman-Myer guess. In the 10
l01. they also guessed at similar cas-
and if they haven't changed their nutio
they are likely to "set down on" our Ca
do friend. However, We are not prepar
to say, but that Judge Tayiors prognos
cation was right all the.same.